Improvement in combined hooks and pins



G. U. Y EISER.

Combined Hooks and Pins.

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UNESSES INNTQR. 0% ww. l .ff/' 'wf/f y 2 @my i UNITED STATES GEORGE O. YEISER, OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED HOOKS AND PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,797, datcdMarch 17, 1874 application filed June 28, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. YEISER, of Lexington, in the county of Fayette and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Hook and Pins; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and ligures of reference marked thereon.

, Figure l of the drawings is a representation of my hook and pin closed. Fig. 2 is a view of the same open.

This invention has relation to means for suspending fans, eye-glasses, bouquets, or other small articles from the apparel; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the bent wire, forming at one end a pin, adapted to be fastened to the dress or elsewhere, Jand secured by a holding-notch eccentrically formed in the lower portion or bend ot' the suspending-hook, the other end being bent and slightly twisted laterally to engage with the upper portion or shank of the hook, which is arranged between its beak and the pin.

In the accompanying drawings, the pin a is shown connected with the middle bar I) or shank of the hook by a bend, c, at the upper end thereof, said bend being single or doubled in the form of a coil or otherwise, according to the amount of elasticity desired. At its lower end the shank bis bent, at d, to form the suspending portion ofthe hook, the beak e being carried upward and bent and laterally twisted at its end z to catch around the shank b, thus effectually securing whatever may be upon the hook from being accidentally displaced. Somewhat at one side ot' the most depending portion of the hook-bend d, preferably nearest the shank, is formed a notch, n, into which the point otl the pin is designed to be sprung after it has been passed through the dress, thus securing the pin and shielding its point completely, without interfering with that portion of the bend to which the article or ring connection may be suspended. This construction also enables the pin to be sprung through the hook, past the more depending portion of the bend d, to the notch on the opposite side ot' said bend.

Sometimes the twisted and bent end of the beak of the hook is iiattened on the contact face for more perfect engagement with the shank b.

"What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The suspension -hook formed of a single piece of spring-wire, having the pin aconnected with the middle bar b by the coil-bend c at the upper end thereof, the bar I, bent at d, forming a suspension-hook, the beak c carried upward and laterally twisted at z to catch around the shank, substantially as and for the purposes speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE O. YEISER.

Vitnesses:

AD. I. Knonsine, FRANK A. ATnINs. 

